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MAX SCHLOSS, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,590, dated December 17, 1889.

' Application filed February 23, 1889. Serial No. 300,824- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that 1, MAX SoHLoss, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvement by hooking through or into the same,

and are readily attached to or detached from the garment or other similar article upon which they are used.

The object of the invention is to produce a detachable hook that may be readily placed upon the garment, and which while serving as a connection shall not draw or pull the garment into wrinkles or bad form.

into two parallel prongs B, which end inhook-points C, which are turned back to the shank in a plane practically parallel with that of the shank, leaving openings or slots between the free ends and said shank. By this construction the shoulders D are formed, and the hook-points may be sprung together, and the shank, being elastic, will tend to --force them apart.

E represents a piece of goods or the edge of a garment with the hook applied, which is readily done by taking the hook by the shank, inserting its points in the material, and then forcing the hooksthrough, at the same time reversing the direction of their points.

The special features to be noted are these: The shank serves as-a convenient means for taking the hook between the thumb and finger to insert it, and when the hook is inserted the shank bears upon the under face of the garment and holds its points from getting out of place. In other words, the hook is attached to the garment at points between the broad shank A and the outer ends of the parallel prongs B, so that it is always held in proper place and fiat against the face of the article to which it is attached, and cannot, therefore, turn up so as to be in the way or catch upon the hands of the wearer or upon other garments. The shank thus shaped, bowing out from the parallel prongs, as it does, forms shoulders against which the material in which the hook is inserted can bear, and these shoulders, projecting-and inclining outwardly from the shank, tend to spread the material caught between the prongs, and thereby prevent the wrinkling which occurs with the common forms of similar hooks. So, too, the elasticity of the shank serves to help to keep the goodsspread out, as well as to restore the points of the hook to their normal position after they may have been drawn together by severe strain.

It is important that the parts B and the points 0 of the hook be straight and parallel, or substantially so, in order that the hook may be readily removed, when desired, from the garment, and also that the portion of the fabric through which the hook passes be held flat and not bunched and wrinkled.

I design to use these detachable hooks-for any kind of garment to which it is desirable to apply them, and especially upon such garments as jerseys and other garments composed of soft or elastic goods, upon which it is preferred to use an adjustable and removable fastening device. They may of course be applied to. other garments or articles of fabric where they can serve to fasten two parts together.

I am aware that various forms of hooks are common for purposes similar to that of the hook herein described, especially that of United States Patent No. 123,619, and I do not claim any such forms, my invention being confined to a hook embodying the particular advantages herein set forth.

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detachable hook for securing the parts of a backward toward the shank, lcavingopenings garment together, composed of single piece or slots between the free ends and said shank, 10 of wire circularly bent to form the shank A, substantially as described. having the straight parallel prongs B project- MAY SCHLOSS 5 ing therefrom and in the same plane,whereby shoulders are formed for the portions of the \Vitnesses: fabric caught to bear against the prongs B, ROBT. F. GAYLORD, ending in the parallel hook-points O, bent FRANK E. HARTLEY. 

